Canibalias Y Calibanas Chicanas, Migrantes Y Eulatinas
Resumen del Libro
Anchored to the Mexican-American and U.S. Latino historical experience, this dissertation examines how a Latino and Chicano Canibalia manifests itself in literary and cultural production across the different literary periods of the Southwest and the United States as formulated by Luis Leal and Ilan Stavans: Colonization: 1537-1810, Annexations: 1811-1898, Acculturation: 1898-1945, Upheaval: 1946-1979, and the fifth period, Into the mainstream: 1980-present. Theoretically, the study is primarily based on the work Canibalia: canibalismo, calibanismo, antropofagia cultural y consumo en América Latina (2005) by Carlos Jauregui. This Canibalia claims that the symbol Caliban, a character taken from the drama, The tempest (1611) by William Shakespeare and interpreted in Calibán (1971) by Roberto Fernández Retamar, is an indispensable reference that, today, links the discourse on Colonial studies in Latin America and, for us, also in the Mexican-American Southwest. To particularize Jáureguis critical perspective, we draw from the work The dialectics of our America: genealogy, cultural critique, and literary history (1990) by José David Saldívar, whose call for a School of Caliban not only brings together all subaltern subject positions but marks the value of the schooling such an institution will provide. For Saldívar, Chicano and U.S. Latino scholarship needs to be incorporated into Caliban studies due to a shared anti-imperial resistance. We also rely on the theoretical work, Local histories/global designs: coloniality, subaltern knowledges, and border thinking (2000) by Walter Mignolo, which links colonial difference to border thinking and examines contemporary dialogues on Orientalism, Occidentalism, and post-Occidentalism with regards to Latin American, Chicano, and U.S. Latino cultures. Our study interprets such works as I am Joaquín (1967) by Rodolfo Corky Gonzales, the performances of Guillermo Gómez-Peña, the novels, Peregrinos de Aztlán (1974) by…
